Jeffrey M. Tanenbaum
Partner
Labor & Employment Practice Leader

Practice Areas

Experience

Jeffrey Tanenbaum chairs the firm’s labor and employment practice group and the firm’s national Occupational Safety & Health (OSHA) team. He represents employers in employment and labor relations litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Mr. Tanenbaum has extensive experience in, and has written and lectured on, OSHA, Cal-OSHA, MSHA, discriminatory and negligent hiring, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, collective bargaining, and arbitrations.

A Matthew Bender publication has described Mr. Tanenbaum as one of California’s leading employment litigators, and Mr. Tanenbaum has been named by The Recorder, a prestigious legal newspaper, as one of the Bay Area’s Top Employment Attorneys.

Mr. Tanenbaum has been recognized for exceptional standing in the legal community in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2009 for Labor and Employment work. He has also been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by the publishers of the Northern California Super Lawyers magazine for 2009. Inclusion in Super Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey.

Admissions
Mr. Tanenbaum is admitted to practice in California.

Affiliations
Mr. Tanenbaum is a member of the State Bar of California and its Employment and Labor Law Section. Within the American Bar Association Mr. Tanenbaum is a member of the Section on Labor and Employment Law and the Occupational Safety & Health Law Committee. Mr. Tanenbaum is also a member of the Editorial Review Board for the CAL/OSHA Compliance Advisor.

Publications
Mr. Tanenbaum's numerous publications include:

• Cal-OSHA Handbook (California Chamber of Commerce) (technical advisor)
• Senate Bill 198 and the Be a Manager Go to Jail Act (Littler) (author)
• Employee Handbook: How to Write One for Your Company (California Chamber of Commerce) (co-author)
• The Employer^TM Series (Littler) (contributing author)
• Cal-OSHA: Beyond the Basics (California Chamber of Commerce) (co-author)
• The Common Sense Employer (Knowledge Circle, Inc.) (editorial advisor)
• Terror and Violence in the Workplace (Littler) (co-author)
• Personnel Policy Solutions (Knowledge Circle, Inc.) (co-editor)
• Family Leave Laws: A Guide for California Employers (California Chamber of Commerce) (editor)
• New Guidelines for Employment Contracts and Disciplinary Procedures (Littler) (co-author)
• The Five Biggest Mistakes Made by Employers (and How to Avoid Them!) (Littler) (co-author)
• California Employment Law Reporter (Matthew Bender) (columnist)
• The New Cal-OSHA Guidelines for the Contingent Workforce (Littler) (co-author)
• An Employer’s Pocket Guide to Cal/OSHA (M. Lee Smith)(author)
• Preventing Workplace Violence (Parlay International)
• Cal/OSHA Compliance Advisor (Employer Resource Institute) (editor)

Education

Georgetown University, J.D.
Brandeis University, B.A.